Once every three years students can enter the renewed PARTS Training Cycle. The first group started in 2013. They are closing their cycle with a creation of their own as well as new pieces,  directed by experienced choreographers. In Programme 3 Eszter Salamon reflects with 12 dancers on history and identity.

Once every three years students can enter the renewed PARTS Training Cycle. The first group started in 2013. They are closing their cycle with a creation of their own as well as new pieces,  directed by experienced choreographers. In Programme 1 Marc Vanrunxt and his five dancers will search to their commonalities and Vera Mantero dives into the world.

Cinemaximiliaan is a cinema for people on the move. The project started spontaneously in the refugee camp in the Maximilian Park, where daily film screenings provided a welcome distraction. The volunteers of Cinemaximiliaan have encountered dozens of newcomers with artistic talent. This evening features work by three of these people.

With Dance # 2 Christine De Smedt and Eszter Salamon continue to build on Dance # 1 / Driftworks. The first part – listening & mouthing – was inspired by Inuit throat-singing duets. In part two – words & gestures – a dialogue develops in which syllables and words become attached to movements. What does a choreography look like when it resembles a ping-pong game of question and answer?

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion present two of their playful, tightly composed duets. Eleanor And Flora Music is a new version of their iconic Both Sitting Duet. Subsequently, Burrows and Fargion perform Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting In A Room. They interpret Lucier's generously open score to arrive at a performance that meditates on its own theft, even while slowly disappearing.

Radouan Mriziga approaches dance from an architectural perspective. He searches for a transparent structure in which movement and narrative are distilled from constructing. For 3600 seconds, body and spirit merge in a space where the performers become both craftsman and architect.

With intelligence and humour, Charlotte Vanden Eynde sounds out the visual and expressive potential of the body. Revel in two of her solos in a single evening! In I’m Sorry It’s (Not) A Story she experiments with language, meaning and emotion. Shapeless shifts the focus to form, to chaos, to the intangible.

The inspiration for Edelweiss comes from rebuses. It is intended to be a precious gem inspirited by Klimt, Emilie Flöge, sport, 19th-century aquaria, babies, the 1970s, the future and the artist Fontana. As an ode to fetishism, the performance cherishes every facet of that phenomenon like an artwork.

With SunBengSitting, Simon Mayer sets on a humorous journey to his past, looking for identity. This results in a mix of Austrian folk dance, traditional
yodelling and contemporary dance.